[0:00] All right, good morning, everybody.
[0:03] It is 8:30. Uh, I will note that we
have four out of five commissioner
present.
[0:07] Mr. Tony is down in the cities today.
Please thank her for being selected.
[0:13] [inaudible]
[0:17] I am confident that with courage,
balance,
[0:20] education, and your guidance, we can
achieve this goal,
[0:23] the liberty.
[0:26] Mr. Chair, yes.
[0:28] It says tomorrow online.
[0:30] If he is online, so I then indicated
if
[0:33] a lot of additions on the gender you
would like to vote and then roll
call.
[0:38] He does want to vote?
[0:39] If there's an an addition.
[0:42] Okay. Currently as it sits is fine.
[0:48] How many voting?
[0:52] Uh, does anybody have anything for
the consent agenda?
[0:58] All right, do we have a motion to
approve the consent agenda?
[1:03] I will make that second.
[1:06] All in favor say aye. Aye.
[1:08] All same sign? There are no opposed,
it's carried.
[1:12] I approved the regular agenda. Do we
need discussion?
[1:15] There's a removal. A removal? What's
one?
[1:17] Page one, uh, Commissioner, Tony
cannot be here.
[1:22] So we, uh, said we've moved that off
of the transfer budget.
[1:25] It was specifically a transfer off
the agenda.
[1:28] All right, Jerry. Could add one
closed session, please.
[1:32] Closed session, so page three.
[1:39] Anything else?
[1:41] All right, Karen, do we have a motion
to approve?
[1:44] So moved. Second.
[1:45] We have a motion and a second.
[1:47] Any discussion?
[1:48] All in favor say aye. Aye.
[1:50] All same sign, there are no opposed,
it's carried.
[1:54] All right, uh, E1, Family Resource
Center.
[1:58] Good morning, thank you,
Commissioners.
[2:01] Um, we are happy to have Brenda share
a little bit more about the
[2:05] Power Family Foundation.
[2:07] you received a grant for $67,000 for
your services.
[2:11] So we didn't have Brenda due to a
death in the family.
[2:16] Good morning, everyone. Good morning,
Commissioners.
[2:20] Uh, in 2018, the federal government
passed the Families
[2:23] First Prevention Services Act, that
is a way to look at
[2:26] how we provide
[2:30] uh, protection services to children
and their families and look at
[2:33] reducing the number of children of
color especially in
[2:36] out of home placements.
[2:39] And Family First Prevention Services
recognizes family resource centers
[2:43] as a way to provide services to
strengthen families, prevent
[2:46] out of home placements,
[2:49] and to have the community take a
stronger state in raising our
[2:52] children rather than looking at
social services and government
programs.
[2:58] The Power Family Foundation has been
in Minnesota for almost five years,
[3:03] uh, and they'll be ending their, um,
program here, but
[3:07] Power Family will be taking that
over.
[3:11] And their primary interest in
Minnesota was helping to, um, assist
[3:15] communities and counties in
developing family resource centers.
[3:20] We applied for a family resource
center exploration grant,
[3:23] and we were granted that grant.
[3:26] The next process will be looking at,
uh, developing a parent advisory
[3:30] committee, that is kind of the heart
and soul of family resource centers,
[3:35] are looking at families that would
actually use the services, uh, to be
[3:38] part of the planning for the
services.
[3:42] Uh, the exploration would be
contracting with, uh, Loop,
[3:46] and we also already have paid a
consultants out of the Loop that are
[3:49] interested in have done, uh,
community, um,
[3:53] exploration grants before.
[3:58] And we would look at our community's
response and do we feel we need
[4:01] a family resource center?
[4:04] Uh, family resource centers in our
community, um, feels strongly that
[4:08] we would utilize that service.
[4:12] are really looking at community
providers, not necessarily
[4:15] government services, but more looking
at our community partners such as
[4:22] Excuse me, Right Water Health, um,
local early childhood family
education
[4:26] programs, uh, perhaps United Way, our
on-house program and looking at
[4:31] having a hub for families to kind of
have one-stop shop.
[4:37] Um, the grant is a two-year grant.
The first year would be the primarily
[4:41] the researching and the community
needs assessment and then the
[4:45] second year would be looking at where
to go from there.
[4:49] Uh, Power Family is having a few, uh,
funds left in Minnesota, even
[4:54] after they've given those would be,
uh, largely buy-
[5:00] other family foundation. So if our
community did look uh at the
[5:05] family resource center felt that we
needed to develop one
[5:07] they could look for the
implementation grant later on.
[5:12] Um, just some highlights quickly
[5:15] in looking at uh the outcomes.
[5:18] A study on the longitudinal analysis
of family resource
[5:22] centers and the cost benefits to
child welfare agencies
[5:26] is that there's a 292% return on
investment
[5:30] for every dollar invested in a child
family services resource
[5:35] center
[5:36] the county child welfare system saved
200, or $2.92
[5:42] for every dollar invested.
[5:44] And there was a 62.84% reduction in
substantiated
[5:48] child maltreatment cases
[5:50] uh between uh 2015 and 2018.
[5:54] And so this morning we're looking at
um asked from the
[5:57] board approval to accept this grant
[6:00] and do a community needs assessment.
[6:05] Any questions?
[6:08] I'll make motion. Second. Second.
[6:11] Questions?
[6:13] Questions to the board?
[6:14] Just a comment from me.
[6:16] Uh, this is, I super excited that you
received this grant.
[6:19] Um, it's definitely a need in our
community,
[6:22] so I'm excited to see what
[6:24] what comes of the needs assessment
the first year.
[6:27] Thank you.
[6:28] All right, we have a motion and a
second. Any further discussion?
[6:31] So is this, this doesn't overlap
anything. This is a
[6:36] a new initiative or is this
reallocating resources or
[6:42] or what?
[6:43] It's a gap, I believe.
[6:44] Yes, it would be a gap. There
wouldn't be any um,
[6:50] reallocation of resources. It's just
support for families,
[6:55] um, especially kinship families. So
we're looking at adoptive
[6:59] families and families that take
custody,
[7:02] uh, serving around the teenage years.
That gets to be a very
[7:05] challenging period of time.
[7:07] And within a family resource center,
there are supportive
[7:11] services that we could provide
[7:12] such as functional family uh therapy
and parents as teachers,
[7:17] but that would be provided by the
community. And then medical
[7:21] assistance through the Family's First
Prevention Services Act
[7:24] would pay for those services.
[7:26] Uh, so it's really like a gap
analysis to see what services
[7:30] are missing and how we can better
coordinate existing and new
[7:34] services so that families just have
to go to one place
[7:38] instead of having to call all these
different agencies.
[7:43] Any other questions?
[7:45] All in favor say aye.
[7:47] Aye.
[7:48] Opposed, same sign. Hearing none,
motion is carried.
[7:51] Thank you. All right.
[7:53] Uh, I zone in green school
[7:55] Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Carlton
Redshaw, I'm here for
[7:58] our Green School grant. Um,
[8:00] to purchase a refrigerator and
signage for a food share program
[8:05] to reduce food waste as well as
magnetic garbage can lids to
[8:09] recover recyclable materials.
[8:10] I'm asking that we approve this
grant.
[8:14] All right, we have a motion.
[8:15] I'll make that motion.
[8:16] Second.
[8:17] Second. Any discussion?
[8:20] All in favor say aye.
[8:21] Aye.
[8:22] Opposed, same sign. Hearing none,
motion is carried.
[8:25] Thank you.
[8:28] Uh, good morning, Commissioners.
[8:30] Um, I'm coming forward looking for
approval of the Houghton
[8:33] County B Management area.
[8:35] It has been stripped of its local
fiscal responsibilities.
[8:40] It's just for supporting and
[8:42] recovering grant funds for noxious
wheat treatments.
[8:46] I'll make that motion.
[8:47] We have a motion and a second.
[8:50] Second.
[8:51] Any discussion?
[8:53] All in favor say aye.
[8:54] Aye.
[8:55] Opposed, same sign. Hearing none,
motion is carried.
[8:58] Thank you.
[8:59] Transportation.
[9:00] Good morning.
[9:01] Um, requesting approval to enter into
a land lease for the FDL
[9:04] that we had discussed previously.
[9:06] This is the land lease that we had uh
discussed previously at
[9:10] the on Airport Road, uh, for
[9:11] for the FDL to put in their driveway
to the compost facility
[9:15] in via a 50-year land lease.
[9:17] Uh, the county attorney has approved
the contract and so has
[9:21] um, FDL's attorney and they have also
approved it.
[9:25] I'll make the motion.
[9:26] And a second.
[9:29] We have a motion and a second. Any
discussion?
[9:32] All in favor say aye.
[9:33] Aye.
[9:34] Opposed, same sign. Hearing none,
motion is carried.
[9:37] [chair gavel]
[9:38] Uh, the second item I have is approve
the transfer of
[9:41] jurisdiction that we held a public
meeting, a public hearing
[9:44] in Thompson Township uh last
[9:46] Tuesday. Uh, with so that we'd be
transferring of the two front
[9:49] end roads along the US 61 North and
South and then the old US 61
[9:54] and then we would exchange that for
the North portion, North two
[9:57] miles of Erickson Road.
[10:00] Thank you.
[10:00] [chair squeak]
[10:02] So no.
[10:03] No, sir.
[10:06] a second.
[10:08] Any discussion?
[10:09] Is it, um,
[10:10] are we transferring like
[10:13] maintenance values from one to the
other?
[10:18] So we had agreed to transfer them and
as is condition
[10:21] because we had worked up, uh,
[10:23] we had worked up estimates for both
all three roads
[10:27] and then also Ericsson Road, uh,
[10:28] to dis to to see what the cost would
be
[10:30] and the costs were pretty comparable,
so we that is why
[10:32] we decided to transfer and as is
condition.
[10:38] All right.
[10:40] All in favor say aye.
[10:41] Aye.
[10:42] All same, sorry.
[10:43] number.
[10:44] Thank you.
[10:45] Oh, one more thing.
[10:46] Uh especially for Mark, Cosat 61 will
not be open today because of the
weather.
[10:51] We that that weather has pushed us
behind in paving.
[10:54] So um, hopefully the weather clears,
and we'll get it paved sometime this
week and
[10:58] we'll get it off.
[11:01] Uh
[11:02] Thank you.
[11:05] H2 alcohol beverage license.
[11:07] Mr. Cherry projects
[11:09] he proposes electing to add a
consumption and display permit
[11:12] they currently already have on whole
on sale licenses.
[11:15] If they choose to close the clubhouse
in the winter,
[11:20] They have a golf simulator in a
different building,
[11:22] and you can use consumption and
display.
[11:24] So.
[11:25] [laughter]
many.
[11:26] I'll second.
[11:27] I second.
[11:28] Any further discussion?
[11:30] All in favor say aye.
[11:31] Aye.
[11:32] Hi.
[11:33] All same, sorry.
[11:34] Thank you.
[11:35] [crowd]
[11:36] All right, we want you to go in close
session.
[11:38] I'll make that motion.
[11:39] I'll say it.
[11:41] All in favor say aye.
[11:42] Aye.
[11:43] We will make no motion.